Category: Short Stories

Those Times and These

TO me and to those of my generation, Judge Priest was always Judge Priest. So he was also to most of the people of our town and our county and our judicial district. A few men of his own age--mainly men who had served with him in the Big War--called him Billy, right to his fac...

Chapters

9. CHAPTER VIII. CINNAMON SEED AND SANDY BOTTOM

Major putnam stone is dead, but his soul goes marching on. Mainly it does its marching on at Midsylvania University. Every fall, down yonder, on the night of the day of the last...

1. CHAPTER I. EX-FIGHTIN' BILLY

TO me and to those of my generation, Judge Priest was always Judge Priest. So he was also to most of the people of our town and our county and our judicial district. A few men o...

8. CHAPTER VII. HARK! FROM THE TOMBS

FROM all the windows of Coloured Odd Fellows' Hall, on the upper floor of the two-story building at the corner of Oak and Tennessee Streets, streamed Jacob's ladders of radiance...

6. CHAPTER VI. THE FAMILY TREE

THE family tree of the Van Nicht family was not the sort of family tree you think I mean, although they had one of that variety too. This was a real tree. It was an elm--the big...

3. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. MR. FELSBURG GETS EVEN

OF all the human legs ever seen in our town I am constrained to admit that Mr. Herman Felsburg's pair were the most humorous legs. When it came to legs--funny legs--the palm was...

10. CHAPTER IX. A KISS FOR KINDNESS

AS WILL be recalled, it was from the lips of His Honour, Judge Priest, that I heard the story relating to those little scars upon the legs of Mr. Herman Felsburg. It was from th...

5. CHAPTER V. THE CURE FOR LONESOMENESS

THEY were on their way back from Father Minor's funeral. Going to the graveyard the horses had ambled slowly; coming home they trotted along briskly so that from under their fee...

11. CHAPTER X. THE START OF A DREAM

For years it was the dream of our life--I should say our lives, since my wife shared this vision with me--to own an abandoned farm. The idea first came to us through reading art...

4. CHAPTER IV. THE GARB OF MEN

THEY used to say--and how long ago it seems since they used to say it!--that the world would never see another world war. They said that the planet, being more or less highly ci...

2. CHAPTER II. AND THERE WAS LIGHT

SO many things that at first seem amazingly complex turn out amazingly simple. The purely elemental has a trick of ambushing itself behind a screen of mystery; but when by deduc...

7. did. If she had survived the first shock I judge the second one would

“That was the queerest part of the whole thing--that was what made a really big story out of it. We ran two columns about it ourselves, and the A. P. carried it for more than a...